Memorizing or Understanding: Are We Teaching the Right Thing? by Dr. Eric Mazur, Professor of Physics, Harvard University
Dr. Eric Mazur, Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, Harvard University, addresses the pedagogical issue of promoting understanding as opposed to memorization. During the EduLearn conference in Barcelona in 2014, he delivered a talk, “Memorizing or Understanding: Are We Teaching the Right Thing?” Dr. Mazur argues that education is more than just transfer of information,